It's not, he insists, made out of trauma.
He is scarfing down some of the vegan food that, he insists, makes him abnormally energetic.
Unlike some of Mr Talabani's followers, the Kurds would not, he insists, make a pre-emptive grab for Kirkuk and its oil.
The government's uncertain and seemingly confused response to the anthrax attacks, Gingrich insists, makes his case against the usefulness of bureaucracy in a moment of crisis.
The boy, he insists, made mistakes and had bad luck, but he was no different from thousands of other young seekers of the solitary sublime.
This resolution, Quayola insists, makes the prints more akin to objects than mere images.
Sampson himself greeted the train, holding open his coat to show his pistols and insisting, "Make way".
Lists, she insisted, made things manageable.
In a society where many people don't feel comfortable talking about race, Hank Willis Thomas insists on making art about race.
He once spent some time - entirely for his own amusement, he insists - making up the worst joke in the world, then sending it to comedians.
What a shame that he insists on making stuff.
